Quiet rooms for staff use

Quiet rooms for staff for various uses.

Content

• Purpose
• Multipurpose quiet rooms
• Baby changing facilities

Purpose

1. Quiet rooms in the workplace can be used for breastfeeding, expressing milk, prayer, meditation, first aid, or rest, or for neurodivergent colleagues, disabled colleagues, staff experiencing menopause or anyone in need of a moment of quiet when feeling overwhelmed.

2. They may not offer the privacy required for expressing milk, such as a lock on the inside or opaque windows. Those suitable for expressing milk are identified below.  A section specifically for baby changing facilities has been included at the bottom.

3. More information on additional rooms specifically for prayer/contemplation is available.  

4. If you are a user of one of the following rooms and can give us any details on how to get access to the rooms or whether it isn’t suitable for expressing milk, please let the Employment Policy Team know.

Multipurpose quiet rooms

• 26 Bedford Way Room 424. Also suitable for breastfeeding
• 48 Gordon Square Room B09, Basement Level
   
• 90 High Holborn Room 155, First Floor
   
• 170 Tottenham Court Road Rooms 427 and 428, Fourth Floor
   
• 222 Euston Road Room G03, Ground Floor

• Bidborough House, Bidborough Street Room B06, Basement Level
  Key available from reception. Also suitable for expressing milk.

• Here East UCL, Bartlett School of Architecture Room 1.2, First Floor

• Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way Room 794, Seventh Floor
   
• Institute of Neurology, Cruciform Building, Queen Square Room 2.1.02, 2^nd Floor
• School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square Rooms B34, Basement Level
   
• Shropshire House Room 4.02, Fourth Floor

• Student and Registry Services, Gower Street Room G01, Ground Floor
   
• The Student Centre, Gordon Street Rooms B2.01, B2.02, Level B2
   
• Malet Place Engineering Building  Room 716, 7^th Floor
  Also suitable for expressing milk. Room 716 is the designated rest/expressing room. It is lockable and has a sink, fridge, table, and a lounge chair. Access to the building is via the UCL card-operated turnstile or via the staffed Reception in the adjacent Roberts Building. There are no windows in this room.
  Also suitable for baby changing.
   
• Zayed Centre for Research, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health Rooms X1102 and X1106, First Floor

• Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources, Central House Upper Woburn Place, Room 114, First Floor
   
• Information Services Division 105 Judd Street, Room 101

• Institute of Opthalmology 11-43 Bath Street, Room 310.
  Bookable via internal schoolbooking system
   
• Christopher Ingold Building Room G2, Ground Floor

• 1-19 Torrington Place Rooms 803 and 808, 8^th floor

• Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Wilkins Building, Room 21, South Wing, . Contact: ah-wellbeing@ucl.ac.uk

• UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, Room G01 and Room G02, PUW Ground Floor

   

Baby changing facilities

• Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street Room G12A
  • Accessible gender-neutral baby-changing facilities located in the ground floor WC
• MRC Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology Building Room G18, Ground Floor
  • Accessible WC and baby-changing facilities: Located in the large ground floor gender-neutral WC, room G18. Available to anyone who has access to the building, or is signed in as a visitor.
• Christopher Ingold Building Room G2, Ground Floor
   
• The Student Centre, Gordon Street Room G04, Level 00
  • Baby-changing and first-aid room
• Wilkins Building Rooms B03, B05 and B45, Lower Ground Floor
  • Men’s WC and baby-changing: Located in Room B03
  • Women’s WC and baby-changing: Located in Room B05
  • Gender-neutral WC and baby-changing: Located in Room B45
• 1-19 Torrington Place Room 359, Third Floor
  • Accessible WC and baby-changing facilities: Baby-changing facilities available in the accessible women’s WC located on the 3rd floor, opposite the west end lift lobby.
• 26 Bedford Way Room 403, Fourth Floor
  • Accessible WCs and baby-changing facilities: Accessible gender-neutral WC’s located on the 4th floor.
• 44 Wicklow Street Room G.19, Ground Floor; Room 3.09, First Floor (Levels 2&3)
  • Accessible WCs & baby changing facilities
• PEARL Dagenham East, Room 6, Ground Floor
  • Accessible WC & baby changing facilities
• School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square
  • Accessible gender-neutral WC and baby-changing facilities is located on the ground floor (G20). Available to anyone who has access to the building or is signed in as a visitor.
  • First aid room (G05) is suitable for baby changing and for expressing milk. Room G05 on the ground floor is the designated expressing room. It is lockable and has a sink, fridge, and a lounge chair. There are no windows in this room. Available to anyone who has access to the building or is signed in as a visitor.
• UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, 30 Guildford Street, Cygnet room, Ground Floor
  • Designated room for breastfeeding and expressing mothers, open to all ICH/UCL staff, students, and visitors, located behind reception on the ground floor of the main building. This is a lockable room, with a high-backed armchair, small table, radio, fridge and "in-use" sign. There is no bin or sink within the room, these are located in the accessible WC next door. This room is non-bookable and accessed by a digital keypad only. Please contact one of the following staff members for the digital code: 
    
    Stephanie Ball: stephanie.ball@ucl.ac.uk
    
    Katie White: k.white@ucl.ac.uk 
    
    Nicole Hofmans: n.hofmans@ucl.ac.uk

If any of this information is out of date, please inform employmentpolicy@ucl.ac.uk